00:00Dear True Psychic Tales Magazine, it's me again, Rasputin Aquato.
00:04I know I write a lot and you haven't printed any of my True Psychic submissions so far,
00:09but this one's different. This one's true.
00:12I just helped rescue Truman Zanotto, the grand head of the Psychonauts,
00:18and father of Lily Zanotto, my girlfriend.
00:21Although the term is still very fresh and might need fact-checking before we go to print.
00:25There was a kiss, but... okay, I'm already getting off track.
00:31Let me start at the beginning.
00:33I grew up in the circus, the Aquato Family Circus,
00:37a ragtag little caravan of acrobats run by my parents.
00:41We were taught all our lives to hate and fear psychics,
00:44or fortune tellers as we knew them,
00:47all because of some old thing where they cursed the Aquatos to die in water.
00:52Problem is, I am psychic.
00:55I have been all my life.
00:56I hid my powers from my family, practicing them in secret,
01:01until one fateful night.
01:03After a show, a mysterious stranger handed me a brochure
01:07for Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp,
01:10a training facility for psychic kids,
01:13operated by the International Espionage Agency we all know as...
01:18Bum-bum-bum!
01:19The Psychonauts.
01:21I ran away from home that night.
01:24When I got to Whispering Rock,
01:26I blended in seamlessly with the other campers.
01:29Superstar Secret Agent Sasha Nine and Mia Vodello
01:32taught me levitation and sigh-blast.
01:35I learned pyro and telekinesis from Ford Cruller himself.
01:39He was all over camp, literally all over, due to his ability to teleport.
01:45He even took up psychic residence in my head,
01:47which I could prove to you if you had a piece of bacon.
01:50Needless to say, things were going great.
01:53The one little catch was that the head coach of the camp
01:56was stealing campers' brains and putting them inside armored death tanks
02:00that I guess he was going to use to take over the world or something.
02:03I went into his mind and found out he just had some issues with his father.
02:07I mean, who doesn't, right?
02:10Now he's okay.
02:11Not great, but okay.
02:14Just as Ford Cruller was making me an honorary psychonaut for all my hard work,
02:19word came in that Truman Zanotto had been kidnapped.
02:23So my fellow psychonauts and I jumped in a jet and set out to find him.
02:29Our search led us to an abandoned underwater outpost of the psychonauts
02:33in a dangerous part of the ocean, known as the Rhombus of Ruin.
02:38We found Truman there, held captive by Dr. Lobato,
02:43unlicensed dentist and amateur brain surgeon.
02:46We freed Grand Head Zanotto, but he's got silerian poisoning and can't tell us what happened.
02:51We know Lobato wasn't acting alone,
02:54but he won't tell us who hired him to kidnap Truman.
02:57Agent Nine has an idea how to get the information
03:00using an elaborate psychic construction implanted in Lobato's mind.
03:04It's risky, but that's just a way of life when you're a psychonaut.
03:09If I don't make it back, I really hope you consider publishing my letter.
03:14And also, please consider the sample layout and illustrations I included.
03:18Well, I better get my head in the right place.
03:22The mission is about to begin.
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